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 ; In the following disceurse the Right Reirere,^ 
 feelingly deplores some late agitations/)! the^ 
 "in omof the American Stata^ and ably c "^ 
 tenti^ oflSie PastorS and Ministers of the * __, 
 Jlpi^copal Church to that line of consis^nt ciond 
 which Inmost Jikely to secure the blessing of 
 Church's Hjiad, afid to prevent the recurrence of ^. . 
 niilar confusion and partj^ exilement. It appears to 
 us so Well fitted to promote th<%best interests of the 
 Re%ion of oiir Redeem^^ thfoijghout the prote^ant 
 worlds that wa iiav©. b^^yg^jiced to present it t»a|jM* ■■ 
 notice of the religiou.<r^#i!c in these Colo * 
 
 4 few passages which bore retation, for ,„_. 
 I^rt, ei^lulively, to the Episfeopal Church, a^cip^- 
 tiJted ahd circumstanced, in the United States of A- 
 Rierica, have beert mnitted, Ih what remdms, we 
 jj«Tethe Scripturarsentiments of a christian prelate, 
 ^ ji^hose known talents^and zeal, and piety, and expe^^ 
 rience,may well claim respect for his opinions- and* 
 they will be found no less applicable to the state of- 
 the Church in all parts of the world, than in that" 
 branchpf it in which this BisKof is so zealously striv- 
 ing to approve himself unto Gob. ^ ^, 
 
 The Collects, which we have annexed r form ho un- 
 I' suitable accompaniment ; and we feel assured, t^xt 
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 10 «»»ny int^ whose hands this triict may fall. 
 
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 •Thkre is no principle, w^ich, under all eircumatanaea, a^j i!» 
 evdry situation, can eftectuall/ re^st tife seductions ai^ ,*a- 
 iaults thlit^ would, lure and force uajrora oul- Hut/, «^id Phk^ 
 ' can prefserve U3 in the firm and uOTt&Viatmg discharge of it,' 
 but that which habitutliy^nd deeply recogntses^^ttudiorif/ 
 
 • of a supreme lawgiver, th? tribunal of ^iVJfl|%ftty Ju<!We : and, 
 which acknowledges, i&that atlthftrft/vfl^ighest claim' ailH 
 motive to obedience, aifd anticipates from that tribunal th* 
 final plaudit of eternal feward; Other views r ay come ipi aid 
 of this parampnnt sentiment. ■. But vyorldly in itieirorig'ki.and. 
 workily in their ends, they must prove weals w^en morepow- 
 ertul worldly considerations impel us^ they must yield.against 
 that host of woddly temptations, wTiiqh so often interpose pre- 
 sent gratilcatiOft between us antl oiir duty. To shew our- 
 selves approved unto God— that G8d who has imposed on ua- 
 
 . liisyghtfuldominionjwho now sees and iv3cdrdsonr most secret ' 
 conBuct, and.who, from his jadgment seat, will finally awariL 
 03 nevor.qnding bliss ot wb— this i^ thlifc-^|ivine principle, 
 
 • which,;, fi,»ino; all the poweie, sentiments artd views ef ourbo- 
 ipg on the awful and unchanging scenes of a future^^istenco, 
 
 . raises us above tli,9 comparatively unimportant and tlxe evan- 
 escent scen«3 of this little point of tluration. Seating us m 
 eternity, itgiv,e3U3, in every situation, and under'^U ^ircum- 
 etances, the pure and inflexible dbvotediiess. of* its hol-y flew- 
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 ,,, fc ^.^^^ then be tbe principle which should be urred on nMH 
 In all their temporsl connexions, as that which aWme can 
 necure a consistent and persevering course of obedience, with 
 how much greater force may it be pressed on those who have 
 the guardianship of the spiritual intererts of mankind ; with 
 whom is entrusted the cure, the awful oure of souls ; and whov 
 in some measure, hold in their hands the destiny of immortal 
 beings ? And most of all, with what emphatic, with what deep 
 earnestness may it be held forth, as the supreme principle 
 which, amidst the numerous trials of their course of duty, 
 should animate, control,and comfort those,wlio, unworthy and 
 feeble as they may be, have yet received the high commission 
 to direct and rule undo/ the great Shepherd and Bishq) of 
 
 7 fiouls, all orders of men in His spiritual fold of life and sal* 
 nation. 
 
 To every christian Bishop, there is no command more so- 
 lemn, none which he should press to his soul with a more de- 
 voted and hoiy purpose, than that which the great apostle 
 delivered to Timothy of Ephesus, when he communicated to 
 him those powers of ordination and g-overnment, which every 
 christian bishop successively receives, and will receive to the 
 end of the world. " Study to shew thyself approved unto 
 God," 
 
 And if— in the wide spread branches of the church catho- 
 lic, under all their varying circumstances,whether of splendour . 
 or of gloom, of ele/ation or€epression,of tumult or of calm, to 
 show thomselsves approved unto thfsir (livine Lord and Mas- 
 ter, is the only correct and the only safe aim of those whom he 
 has called to serve Him iif the highest stations of His church 
 militants— numerous and peculiar are the circumstances in our 
 own church, some of them subjects of congratulation, many 
 of heartfelt grief, which render this the most important sen- 
 timent that can be urged on him who is now to bo called to 
 the work and ministry of a Bishop in our branch of the church 
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 Through a course of episcopal duty almost equalling the 
 whole amount of the periods of his sons in the episcopacy, how 
 conspicuously and pre-eminently has this principle distin- 
 guished him who presides among us, our venerable father.* 
 With infirmity, indeed, but with earnestness of desire, I 
 trust those who have received from him the episcopftl authori- 
 ty, have sought to make this holy principle their guide in the 
 various momentous, and often perplexing emergencies of their 
 official course. Will, then, my long known and long deeply 
 
 "Rij^ht Rev. William White, D. D. Bishop of Pennsylvania, con- 
 secrated i\\ EnglinJ, 41 veira since, by the Lord Archbishop of Can- 
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 Ttlued friend, whom w« are soon to r«ceiv.« aaion^l^jst ap- 
 brother in the itpi^copacy, permit me to say,,not moret in\.ber 
 for hit owa admonition than for my own. * ^\s 
 
 •♦ Study to shew thyself approved unto Gbd;r xntkefmthfifr'' - 
 discfuw^e of duty:, <u dtmcmdtd 5jf ike ^articuisf dixumiiimciSf 
 and exigencitt of our Church* 
 
 1. In faithfully preaching the diatiHguuhiiigd«€tirine»oftht' 
 Gospel. 
 
 For a failure in so- doing is one ofthose chargts which^fVom. 
 whatever motive, is often urged ag§iiasj; a portion at leaat of 
 theBishops and Clergy of our chvrchi Wo, indeed.be to them- 
 if they tlius neglect to teach and to enforce those vital doc- 
 trines, which alone can give efficacy to the Gospel as a divine- 
 plan for the salvation of mankind* But in ascertaining the 
 modb by which he is to avoid this censure, and escape this wo,, 
 and to exhibit the faith as once delivered to the saints, the 
 Bishop, of our church will be inflijenced by other considera- 
 tions than those with which human applause can- flatter, or, 
 human censure intimidate. These would often lead to ex- 
 treme opinions, as variant from the plain tenets of our church, 
 and from, the declarations of thfr gospel unadulterated by the 
 alloy of human systems, as they are from the plain dictates of 
 reason and the strongest feelings of our nature*. No love of 
 applause, as the advocate of what is miscalled liberal and ra- 
 tional Christianity ; and no fear of censure for opposing what,, 
 by a strange anomaly, are sometimes distinguiebed as the doc- 
 trmes of grace ; will prompt him,, oathc one Imnd, to make 
 man, the gold of whose nature has become dim, ae bright and 
 pure as when his Maker's image was impressed on his soul ; 
 nor, on the other, to degrade- that image, in native hatred of 
 God and goodness, to the likeness of a fiend, and so to bind 
 man in the chains of his corrupt passions,, as to fix his crime?^ 
 and his final perdition on the God of purity and boundless 
 goodness. On the one hand, he will not wrest? Irora the divine 
 justice its sceptre, and from the divine government its sanc- 
 tions, by extending pardon to sin without the vindication of 
 that oflfended justice, or reparation to that insulted govern- 
 ment ; nor, on the other, limit that atonement to God's viola- 
 ted justice and sovereignty, which is more than of value for 
 the salvation of millions of worlds, to but a small portion, of the 
 ruined race who require in. On the one hand, he will not 
 represent man's powers and affections as standing- in no need' 
 of the invisible and incomprehensible buttransfrolning power 
 of supernatural grace ;nor, on the other, will he exhibit thi» 
 
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 in WYftd buttjy the application of human treason and humah 
 f^^olution,guicled and sanctified by the influences of the divitio 
 ipiritf secretly hut powerfully dispensed in the use of moral 
 means aud external pledges. Presenting the fundamental 
 doctrines of original corruption, of divine atonement, of spirit* 
 ual renovation in the genuine aspects in which fact and in- 
 spiration exhibit them, not accommodated to that pride of rea- 
 tfon which would entirely destroy their lineaments, nor tot 
 tliat false and extravagant zeal which would distort them by 
 the revolting and disgusting features of fanaticism,,be may not, 
 indeed, secure the applause, he may not avoid the censure of 
 men ; he may be spoken against by some as an enthusiast, or 
 by others as a formalist ; but he will have " approved himsolf 
 to God " 
 
 A paramount regard to this approbation will guide him, 
 
 2. In exhibiting the church in its divinely constituted viinis- 
 irations and ordinances as the mean and pledge of salvation 
 io the faithful. 
 
 In uniting us to a visible society, for the purpose of redeem- 
 ins" us from the corruptions of our evil nature and of the world, 
 and for training us for the purity and bliss of a celestial and 
 eternal existence, the Divine Author of our being has not only 
 exercised that sovereign power which makes us in all things 
 dopendent on his will, but has mercifully accommodated him- 
 self to the social principle which so strongly characterizes us. 
 This, uniform and powerful in its influence, prompts us in 
 spiritnal as in temporal matters, to mingle with our fellow men 
 our thoughts, eur feelings, our pursuits, our hopes. Most 
 conversant as we are, too, with material objects, and most af- 
 fected by them, what an aid to our conception of spiritual 
 truths, what an excitement to our hopes of spiritual blessings, 
 when they are exhibited as conveyed and pledged by external 
 symbols. Hence the doctrine tbu.ttho ministrations and ordi- 
 nances of the church are the meauoi and pledges of salvation 
 to the faithful, to all true believers, is not more enforced by 
 the plainest declarations of sacred writ, than it is conformable 
 to a rational and philosophical view of our nature. 
 
 That the church is the bodv of that divine Lord who crava 
 himself for it, that as members of this body true believers are 
 »mitcd in him its head, and thus partake of his fulness of mer- 
 cy and grace,, are truths of tae divine v/ord too frequently and 
 Coo strongly set forth to be denied. But though not denied, 
 
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 Eowmticfe are they neglected! Ifow macli decri«S!?u|^ 
 odionsly and contemptueusly branded arc all researches v". „y 
 the mode by which, in this divine body of the Redeemer, po^ 
 cr is to be derived to minister i»its holy concerns, to dispense 
 its ordinance* ! And yet, in this spiritual and divine society, 
 Roman can minister unless he be called of God by a commis* 
 ■ion visibly conferred for that purpose; ai)d there can be no com- 
 UMieion which is not derived from that Almighty Head of thi« 
 mystical body, who only possesses all spiritual power, and 
 who, vesting with his apostles the authority of conferring the 
 right of ministering in holy things, pronounced the infallible 
 promise, that this authority should be perpetuated " even to 
 the end of the world." TheBishop of our church on these sub- 
 jects may prudently and mildly enforce opinions which boast,in 
 more modern times, of the rupport of some of the most distin- 
 guished names in learning and theology,and which, before pa- 
 pal corruption obscured and deformed them,ranked amongtheir 
 advocates the noble army of martyrs, and the goodly fellow- 
 ship of apostles. He may enforce them with a spirit which 
 embraces, within the wide spread arms of charity,the sincere 
 and the pious of every name and of every nation, and yet he 
 must not expect the applauses of an age which is rapidly 
 exchanging the ancient landmarks of divine order for those of 
 its own planting; and which,displacingthe one apostolic church 
 with a ministry and institutions derived from its divine found- 
 seeks to erect one in which human caprice and human 
 
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 power appoint and model. He must not hope for the attention- 
 of an age thus disposed. Well will it be, if he escapes its 
 loud and condemning denunciations. But ho will have the 
 consolation which, springs from a source that human denun- 
 ciation cannot alloy— 4ie is studying to approve himself to God., 
 
 Under the predominating influence of the same sentiment, 
 he will explain and defend. 
 
 3. The aathority of the church, extending its full and unre- 
 stricted power to all matters not settled by divine prescription, 
 which fall within the sphere of the apostolic precepts, let 
 every thi»g be dane to edification, decently and in orden 
 
 Submission to the will' of the churchy legitimately expressed 
 by Its constituted authorities, not violating the plain prescrip- 
 tions of the moral law, nor the positive determinations of th» 
 word of God, must know no limits. Resistance in such casea 
 would substitute individual pleasure for public will, and would 
 introduce disorder and misrule into that spiritual society, 
 whose essential ckaracteristics are subordination and unity ;. 
 
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 '^n ftU f^^^b incompatible with tho humble md mild spirit of 
 ue^rohiiatiBLn, must be raoat hateful in the sight of that divine 
 ^Aij^y^^^^i whose prayer it was that his followers " might be one, 
 ' "^ always keeping the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace." 
 Things indifferent, when thus enacted, and such are all thing-s 
 not plainly enjoined by reason, by conscience, or by the divine 
 law, assume the awful force of the highest moral bligation. 
 To the prescriptions of the divinely constituted church con- 
 cermng them when lawfully legislating, may be applied witli 
 even more solemnity than to the inferior matters of human 
 polity—" he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance 
 of God." In this view, how imperious the duty of the bishop 
 of our church to enforce and maintain her in the exercise of 
 her legitimate powers, mindful of his solemn engagement at 
 his consecration, which binds him to do so, and studyincr su- 
 premely to be approved of God. ° 
 
 4. Passing from the faith,the ministry ,the authoritv,and tho 
 government of the church, to its worship, I need scarcely in- 
 sist on the obvious and pressing duty of the Bishop of our 
 church sacredly to guard it. 
 
 For singular, and, I must say, alarming is its situation. 
 Not a voice, indeed, is heard, but in its praise. Language 
 pours forth her warmest but not exaggerated encomiums on 
 the spirituality and richness of its matter, on the simplicity 
 and pathos of its style, on the beauty of its parts, and the 
 impressiveness of its .structure, on its unequalled tendency 
 to guard the faith, to elevate the devotion of the christian. 
 Dearer appear all its features,a3 they shine forth with a lustre 
 and a strength exalted and increased by age. And yet while 
 many an unlicensed hand deals witli this general object of af- 
 fection as caprice,or as prejudice,or as realor supposed exigen- 
 cy may dictate, and even deforms it by the mixture of extem- 
 poraneous effusions, the arm of legal authority must not even 
 reverently approach it, to save it from the rude assaults that 
 must sooner or later weaken its salutary influence, if not 
 ciminish tho esteem and confidence in which it is held. Well 
 does it behove every friend to this first of human hooks, and 
 especially of every Bishop, whose province it is especially to 
 guard it, to consider by what methods it is to be secured, tho 
 pride and blessing of churchmen now, their pride and blessing 
 io the latest generationd. 
 
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 in divine truth, and iiteroifm;'^^^'^^ ^" "^^^is valuable 
 
 ed their demolition Ss'utoion'rX.lt^r ''''' ^^"^"'" 
 assault upon them but wif-h Vh« i^' ' ^V'^wing an^ 
 
 At the o,;tsot, it cmild lo\l:UeI b'v'i^'Ld' '''f''^ '' 
 nnnistry of our chnrr). o!l , I ^ «'^cluding: irom th<» 
 
 «olemn prom se of conL.l '',^^' ""^^^'^^J^^tanding the mcst 
 wo JiavJ re^on ?o toTr Zm tn'n'^T^''^' ''^"'^ institution,, 
 with the purpose indeed w .V. 1 "^ /^'""/" their ploasuro. 
 ^Jesi,.ns,t'heromo";S.^^^^^ ibule.^t 
 
 ainiuia. may be tl,e repulsion of such Uom tho .rfinistry, !ui4 
 
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 i;. II .^ if,' ^* ^^^^ ,*® Bishop who discharges this duty, to much 
 in •lijjifrldly remark, reproach, and censure, all good men who 
 «ee:-ard consistency and honesty, all good churchmen who 
 ^^ love their church, will applaud the firmness that dischargsn 
 ,t^^^^^ the duty ; and surely it will be approved of God. This ap- 
 probation will be his aim — 
 
 6. In the exercise of discipline. 
 
 The discipline of punishment, expelling the unworthy from 
 the ministry, the Bishop can seldom discharge, but through 
 the instrumentality and aid of others in the preparatory steps 
 Oi'presentation and trial. The discipline of exhortation and 
 private admonition, in which his own judgment and conscience 
 must solely guide him, important and salutary as it often may 
 be, will still expose him, pure as may bo his motives, kindly his 
 demeanor, and prudent his conduct to those misconceptions 
 and unfriendly feelings, with which the infirmity of our selfish 
 nature sometimes repays the exhortation or admonition which 
 unfeignedly aims at its good. It is especially at such periods, 
 when his kindest aims and his most benevolent purposes are 
 misconceived or thwarted, that the christian Bishop will feel 
 the value of the consciousness that he seeks to be approved of 
 his God. 
 
 7. Under the influence of this sentiment, does he afifection- 
 ately and solicitously watch over his diocese. 
 
 Rejoicing in the joys, mourning in the sorrows of his cler- 
 gy ; sharing their cares, and animating their labours; and es- 
 pecially exciting them, by ca* -jchetical instruction of the- 
 young, by " exhortations public and private to all within their 
 cure, to bring them to such ripeness and perfectness of age in 
 Christ, that there be no place left for error in religion or 
 viciousness of life." As the spiritual overseer of his dioce8e,to 
 guard every part of it from the contagion of error ; as the 
 watchman upon its walls, to give notice of spiritual danger, he 
 will not only diligently seek to " banish and drive away all 
 erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word," and 
 warn against all practices that tend to weaken and subvert 
 that ministry and v/orship which he has promised to advance, 
 but will both" priv.aely and openly call upon and encourage 
 others to do the same." Scattered as are tlie congregation* 
 1 m"''/'*"*'^** ^^^^S religious communities, differing essen- 
 tially from her in various matters of doctrine, of the christian 
 ministry and worship, it must be evident that they are exposed 
 to peculiar assaults upon their principles, and that peculiar 
 Tigi.ancs is necgaSafy ia ihci* Bishop to wara them uf iht 
 
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 approach of danger. Thus commending himself to t^J *P" 
 their faithful guardian, he will have thestrorgegt claim, 
 their affection and their support ; and should he fail to recciv(| 
 these, he will still enjoy the consolatory hope that he shall be^ 
 approved of God. The hope of this approbation will often be 
 his principal support while he discharges his duty to his church. 
 
 8. In condemning popular practices which tend to subvert 
 ker institutions, and to injure the cause of rational and fervent 
 piety. ^ 
 
 Among the most prominent of these, are those meetings of 
 private christians, in which unordained men successively en- 
 L;.'ige in extemporaneous prayer and exhortations. Most soli- 
 citous, indeed, should be the Bishop of our church to encour- 
 age those habits of devotioi;, tiiat communion with God in 
 prayer and praise and thanksgiviug,which only can exxite and 
 cherish in the soul the christian graces, and produce thathea- 
 venly-mindedness which secures from the corruptions, while 
 it exalts all the virtuous enjoyments of the world. And he 
 will, therefore, earnestly exhort, not only to a constant and 
 sincere participation in those public mornmg and evening pray- 
 ers, for which the church has provided the fervent and sublime 
 formularies of the Rook of Common Prayer ; not only to those 
 family devotions, for which, also, the church has set forth 
 form^, and to which the prayers of the liturgy may be adopted ; 
 but to private supplication, thanksgiving and praise in the 
 closet; and to ejaculatory devotions at all times and in all 
 places, in the crowded resort of busiuRss, or of worldly 
 cnioyment,as well as in the secluded walks of retired life. — 
 The christian, who is " instant" in pious reading, medita- 
 tion, and public and private devotion, will find every holy 
 disposition and grace strengthened in his soul, and raising 
 it above tlie corruptions and temptation of an evil world; 
 and he will exhibit a piety fervent and lively, rational, 
 humble, censistent, and enduring. He will not need the 
 fictitious aids of those social meetingi?, which, well meant a» 
 they may sometimes be, and edifying as in some cases and to 
 a certain extent thoy may for a time, prove, are generally, and 
 from the constitution of human nature, almost necessarily, 
 the theatres in Vv'hich spiritual pride, ambition and ostentation 
 indulge their unhgllov/ed aims, and excite those violent 
 emotions of animal sensibility, which discourage instead of 
 inviting the presence of the meek, the mild, the humble graces 
 of the Spirit. That this representation of the lamentable ten- 
 
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 id the enemy of vital godliness, is incontestibly proved 
 _ I testimony of some, who, in the estimation of the 
 
 l^vocates of these associations, stand highest in the ranks of 
 ^%; Evangelical pif .* 
 
 
 ^The testimonies of Scott, the popular commentator, of JSTewton 
 of Olney, of Robinson of Leicester, of Bishop Heber of Calcutta of 
 the excellent editor of the Christian Oiseruer, are recorded against 
 these prayer meetings. ° 
 
 "Both Mr. Newton and the elder Mr. Scott, had -iven countenance 
 to the associations, found on experience to be detrimental Of the 
 species of religious exercises spoken of, Mr. Scott, the father says • 
 * Tm'O or three effects were undeniable; iirst, thev proved hot-beds on 
 which superficial and discreditable preachers were hastily raised up • 
 >vho, going forth on the Lord's d«y lo the neighbouring parishes' 
 intercepted those who used to attend Mr. Newton. Secondly men 
 wei-e called to pray in public, whose conduct afterwards brou'eht a 
 deep disgrace on the Gospel. Thirdly, they produced a captious, cri- 
 ticismg, self-wise spirit, so that even Mr. Newton himself could -el 
 dom please them. Fourthly, they rendeied the people so contemptu- 
 ously ludifierent to the worship of God and the CJiurch, and many of 
 them to any public v\ orship in which they did not take a part,that I never 
 before or since witnessed any thing like it.' Theie are other passaoe«^ 
 to the same effect." Scott's Life, p. p. 306, 307. " 
 
 ,. "t?^°'L^^"*'"^'" ^^'^'■^^'^ ^^'"^ '^^^''O'" of the Christian Observer 
 the Rev Mr. WJlkea, in his work entitled " Correlative Claims and 
 Duties, « who are versed in the reli-ioiis history of tlie last few years- 
 can bear record, that the tendency to deterioration is more rapid in so- 
 cieties ot this kind, than in almost any other. Self-conceit, ostenta- 
 tion, jealousy, party-spirit, a love of gossining and interference, and 
 someiimes perh.ips detraction, and even worse evils, are loo apt lo in- 
 sinuate themselves into these societies." 
 
 \m respect to such societies, and to all unions with other denomi- 
 tions for religious instruction and devotion, the opinions of thf recent 
 ^nd rnudi lamented Bishop Heber, of Calcutta, should have the greatest 
 weight. • . " 
 
 •« There are other inconveniences and improprieties incidmtat 
 to what are usually caUed Prayer Meetings, v^hich have fed to 
 thnr rejection by the great majority of the: Church of England-, 
 and, among the rest, by some excellent men, wl«)m the conduct pur- 
 sued by those with whom their chief intimacies lay would have natwrallY 
 mclined to favour them. I mean, among others, the late Mr. Seott 
 oi Aston Sandford, and the late Mr. Robinson of St. Mary's, Leices- 
 — — i-.«v<:.^,^ lopiuumtu vj me aposue, Ol a number*/ 
 
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At the very fifst view of these associations, they must ap- 
 pear utterly repugnantto til • genius of our church, and tx>her 
 positive institutions. It is her cliaracteristic to do " all things 
 decently and in order." She therefore regulates, by the col- 
 lected wisdom and piety of public authority, the devotions of 
 her members ; and prevents any from the public performance 
 of prayer or exhortation, who are not commissioned by those 
 who have received authority for this purpose. But what se- 
 curity IS there for decency and order, where, as the judicious 
 iiooker observes, " each man's private spirit and gift is the 
 only Bishop tiiat ordaineth him to this ministry."* Our church 
 provides, even " where two or three are gathered together in 
 (jod's name," a form of prayer to guide and regulate their 
 devotions ; she justifies this prescription by the authority of 
 t^cripturc and of primitive usage, and fortifies it by the unan- 
 svverable arguments, that thus the matter and the language 
 of her prayers are secured from erroneous doctJne and from 
 exceptionable expressions ; and the enlightened and orderly 
 devotion of the people, rendered such as their understandinir 
 
 persons coming together, Avitheach his psalm, his prayer, his exhorta- 
 tion ; the elFect of which k not only often confusion , but, what is worse 
 than con[uiiion~self-CQ}U:eit and rivalry, each labouring to excel 
 Jus brother in the choice ofliis expressions and the outward earnestness 
 onus address— and the hid efl^ctsof emulation mixing with actions, in 
 which, of all others, humility and forgetfulness of self are necessary. 
 feuch,too, i^thiii warmth offpeling and language, derived: rather 
 fromtmitaUontkan conmction, which, under the circumstances 
 which I have mentioned, are apt to degenerate into enthusiastic excite- 
 ment or irreverent familiarity.'" 
 
 * The whole passage is so Aveighty and forcible, that it is here in- 
 serted. " To him who considers the grievous and ocandaious inconve- 
 niences whereunto they make themselves dnily subject, with whom any 
 blind and secret corner is judged a lit house of common prayer; the mani- 
 lold confusion which they fall into, where every man's private spirit 
 and gift, as they term it, is the only liishop that ordaineth him to thin 
 muustry ; the irksome deformities whereby through endless and sense- 
 less ettusions of indigested prayers, they, who are subject to no cer- 
 tain order, but pray both what and how they list, oftentimes dis- 
 grace, in most insulTerable manner, the worthiest part of Christian du- 
 ty towards God ; to him, I say, who weigheth duly all these thiflgs 
 the reasons cannot be obscure, why God doth in public prayer so much 
 respect the solemnity of places ivhere, the authority and canine 
 of persons by whom, mdihe precise appointment even with what 
 ioords or sentences, his name shall btcttiiedoii amongaihis people *' 
 JJiCclesias. Pol. Book v. Sec. 25. 
 
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 M.f J^l""'' r r'^' approvG, and as 13 fit to be orered to the 
 nn 4.'y »f ^^e^-i^-en and earth. Do hor prescriptions, founded 
 ^nmpnl^ If"" and primitive usa-e, lose their force, or these ar- 
 fnTumb'er n.^'.l ?'^' T^?" '^'^ congregation is diminished 
 ^1^«? ' ?'^''^ P^^?^ °^ devotion changed from the conse- 
 lectnrt?n? p'^'^Ai^ ^?' f'''^^^ apartment, or the more public 
 ectureioom? Alas! plam and conclusive as are these Wevvs, 
 the -t^-^Iiop of our church, in advocatin- them, will, it is to bo 
 loarert, Jind, that he has to contend with the strongest of all 
 opponents, honest, and, therefore, obstinate error," spiritual 
 prejudice, or spirituai pride anu vanity. His refuge from their 
 rnisconceptions, misrepreseutations,and reproachelj, must be- 
 the hope of the approbation of his God. 
 
 T?i?Kn?"r^®^"uJ''''^°^^'°^"^''^ «'*'^ of reviving religion, tho 
 Bishop of our church willfindit necessary to bear his tes- 
 
 The faithful and zealous application of the rnein^ of grace :, 
 the worship of the churcii ; the preaching of the word > 
 catechetical instruction ; preparation for the ordinance of 
 conhrmation, andthe reception of it, and of the supper of the 
 Wd ; diligent visitation of the people ; family aud private 
 t.xercisesofpiety; those are the moans, which, enforced by 
 thG mmistor,and observed by the people, will throu^rh God's 
 nJcs.ing,prosper his labours to their conversion and edification, 
 ■end the tinal salvation of their souls. But there may be times 
 or mure than ordinary attention in a congregation to spirit- 
 uai objects. Some dispensation of Providence may arouse the 
 uioiigljtless and secure; and the sinner, who has long resisted 
 tae monitions of conscience and the strivings of God's spirit 
 may at length yield : and, awakened and convicted, he may 
 inquire, With deep earnestness and solicitude, concernino-tho 
 tilings tJiat belong to his eternal peace. Bv the influence of 
 moral causes, as well as by the blessing of God's gracf», the 
 concern may extend to others, and thus tlie number of those 
 may be enlarged, who are prosecuting, with a supreme de- 
 yoteilness, the infinitely momentous inquiry, what shall I do 
 to be saved. The faithful minister will cherish iiiese in- 
 quiries, and give them the proper direction, by pointinrr the 
 awakened and burdened spirit to the all-sufliciont mercy and 
 paceotG&d m Christ, applied and dispensed to those who 
 humble and m penitence implore it, in private meditation, 
 reading, and prayer, in the ministrations, the worship, and the 
 prdinances of the church. And at such a season, he will 
 aispense more frequentlv th. public means of grace, and. from 
 houac to house, exhort, instruct, console, aud seek to store the 
 
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 w JirtTet^^^^^^ ^ivi.. tmth, „ 
 
 dirinc^ threatening/ fe^^,,'^^" P«ngent appKcation of the 
 temporal or spir K mw .^^^^^^^nents, whether of a 
 
 judgement, and a^l se,^^^^^^^^ '"" ^^^f" P''^^*^^^^^ ^^^ 
 
 ^^^m^r^::^^:^:^:'''^^-^ excitements, to whicfr 
 
 Bishop of our chuTct 1st fnt ;%n'"^."P,P^^"'' ^^^^^^« 
 of rational and fervenTDiPtv hi^ u-^^'^ ^ig'liest interests 
 '^^ot up" by those popular^arts'th«?'l ^'" testinK,ny-revival^ 
 and preserved and^Sderbf a bddTnr^l- '^' ^T ^^"^ 
 constant employment of Prol,^ a bo d, and unlicensed, and 
 sibility may be ro^^led anlfZ^''^^ \^''^ animal'sen. 
 made to catch thefasefire.of h ^^.^^P^thies of our nature 
 Wdes in the whir? J^d and di r/\T'''f'' ^^^ Lord,i„deed 
 «s i"«-ture,ulti Jtely^"^^^^^^^^^^^ and in religion,, 
 
 are they ; bearinfr de/astat on «L 5 , °^ «°''^- ^"^ evils, 
 »nthe/piritualwil^\"; ?i :be^ ^^«'> course' 
 
 «oc.ety, theaifbctionsof do, e fie liirthP f™ *r^ ^'^"'^esies of 
 and sober piety, and leavin l !i' ,1 ^^'' ^^'^^^ of rational. 
 «^;sr«le and fanaticism Kl^^thehLa^^^ ^^ ^'''''^''^ 
 
 which the friends of oe nui c !t 1- P''""'''"" "°<^' o^er 
 
 raises the kuoh of set r 5 '' .™°'''"' ^"^^ ^^^ scoffer 
 popular revivd of : -^io^f [:'>'C.o™\^ ^^^^T^"^^ ^^-- 
 
 ;f.'^^t Winch the chtiV h ts :^^\itSrL' "^ r'^" ^"^P^'' ^^^ 
 iHs apostles, received? Amrwh't 1 . ^ ^^^r .^^iv.ne Head and 
 what discipline and wors n \^^^^^^*, f^^tnne and sacraments.and 
 eluirchsoIomnlv'D.oXl? the Bishop and Priest of our ' 
 clHM-ch has r" ^>i? d Ts ateSKT; '"^ '""^ ^^'^^^^ ^^-i' 
 1 'ord ? These, and t lose^onl v .1 ti '"^ ^°'""^^^'^'''"^«nt of tlie 
 n-^e, vvhereby God'sho Iv Amiv ^ ^^'"^i "'.^/"-^ ^^''^^^^^ ^^o is to. 
 K'in^3.doni enlarge . TlSsh n'L P "^^""I'^f^ ""^' '"« Messed ' 
 to d<, evil thatlood may con 7 Zt^'^"^ ?^ ^"^ '^^"'"^^ ^« "^t 
 Cipe or consistency, tcausniurii.on"'L' ^.^^^'^^^^e prin- 
 *ouls of men. ordrfw totcH- ^ ^^"'?^^^^ may save the 
 numerous followers." Thi^irnn rT"**^"^ ^"njrregation, and 
 
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 tuous interference with the divine plans. On solemn dc- 
 hberation, the Bishon and Priest of our church have come t^ 
 
 GodSff"'Pr/*^"/^^"°"""^ t« promote the gW of 
 God and the salvation of man, in the mode which that church 
 
 nmnd rJ'"^ appointed as agreeable to the divine com- 
 mand. He has solemaly, most solemnly, vowed to do so 
 Pnnciple, consistency, honour, add their voice in enforcinr; 
 adherence to a yow recorded in Heaven, and, at the Ireat 
 day, to be brought forth. That vow forbids his union ^witt 
 . other denominations of christians, in associations"however 
 numerous respectable, exemplary, and oious, which may 
 endanger the prujfc institutions of his own church " 
 
 chriranr ' R "^ h" 'hT'"'^ r'J" ^"^^^ ^'''^ aluL'^Srow 
 cnristians. It is his duty and object, also, to preserve the 
 principles anr mstitutions of his ow'n chuvcJi. Aiurtherefore 
 he dreads collisions, and avoids associations, wh ch ma^^^^^^^^ 
 to .lazard the one or the other. His duty plainly is toeidea 
 onr to spread his ovvn church, as best Llculatedo advance 
 the salvation of mankind. The puritv of her princiDles thp 
 rn;e3ervationofher institutions, and not soIelvTe tcrelso 
 _pjev uumbers, are the objects of his solicitude ; and there 
 fore, however confined may be his labours, however na^l 
 succoss, however limited his worldly popularity, he can ft 
 up^lns soul m the humble hope that lii II be approved by ht 
 
 J 1. For then he will have done his part towards advancing 
 what IS dearest to his heart-a substantial and jZen^piet^^ 
 
 .H.^^S^ P^^*/ i'f ^^? ''^y ^^^^^ ^""^^ ^^'hich fanaticism has kin 
 died, cherished by those arts that appeal to the animTl passion^ 
 and sensibditiGs of our nature • a n etv thrrofxt!! V^ f ^ 
 «eated in the .judgment and afle'cLTs'vWH not e^ 
 the conflicts of the season of trial ; wli c eThibk Z w^^ 
 
 of candour, of charity to man ; and ^iSd Jt ii^^^^^^^ 
 
 ^^ :::r^':ti^i t^'^ shuns not ;hos:rSfi"; 
 
 church, m the use of its hallowed form Jf ts di -^^apnoint 
 ed means of grace ; a piety, which,brincrin/to ts aid aU the 
 ««ffjestioa« of reason, all the laws of^.L.^.'' „P -^ 
 
 f» 
 
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 virtuous feelings ofnature, relies supremely on sudcour fro«i 
 on high ; which, quickened and cherished by the divine Sni.T 
 Bhines forth constantly in "whatsoever things are tru^ what' 
 soever things are honest, whatsoever things arr/ovelv an:; 
 of good report ;" and disdainino- the ^rimace of o«TnnY .* 
 Ijnd the cant of sanctity, eviden^ces, b/its roav^nlv Ln^^^^^^^ 
 and Its heavenly works, that Heaven is its orlirin 'L ti^ ' 
 is to be its final and blessed aboTe It ifnot S.'„^ h '^^° 
 
 SuceIrT' ^^ ''' character and passiTn o tr '^t 7/^' 
 produce the former spurious exhibition of reli^rion but t'h ^ 
 
 a;p<;iS^:i j:;;!^;::^^!'^-^ ^^^^^^^ ^-^^ ^^^^ine MaJtS- 
 
 Study to shew thyself approved unto God. 
 
 . '" '""Stating the application of this paramount nric- 
 c>p e of action ,„ the Bishop of our church, have I trave T 
 ed too large a field and occupied too much of your time?- 
 Or have I touched on topics at which timidity JartTes 
 and a wluch even prudence is alarmed > But the crisis 
 at «-h.ch our church is arrived, requires, in mv hoS 
 
 udgment plam speaking, as it demands straightforward 
 
 a station-on this occasion, which I cleariy foresaw I could 
 not occupy without remarks which could not be mo e 
 panful for any to hear than for me to utter. Bu"my 
 
 wfsh ,':mre''/r"""'' '^l^— ?K-«0"^ I would ahtay^ 
 wish make.1 law, urged; my reverend friend,! thoudit 
 woidd be gratified ; the duty, thus presented, he ehS ' 
 appeared to demand of me. In discharging t, itope I 
 have not provoked, fathers, brethren, people, 'your?en- 
 
 I speak with the confidence oflong, and intimate and 
 deep observation I speak the languaf; of inflexTb eta/^f 
 and not the partial accents ofaflre*ctiSn,when I pronounce 
 of the reverend person who, at this time, it pre'sentcd for - 
 
 !l!!SP.'f.?P*'«^"'^' i" «.» i'«li'i'l»l has' a single view to 
 >...: uKuuies of auty, to the approbation of his God, more 
 
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 predominating influence than in him. My friend won 
 to be my brother, by the most exalted of tL ervmnT 
 
 Zltr/TAZ 7""^ ' '"^ ^"J"^-^'' «<• "'« SnS 
 
 ^our heart, of the tenderness of your feelin"-s nfih^ h: 
 
 views. 1 h.^ IS not the tune, this is not the place for vou 
 
 truth. And tlie plamness, which I have thought duty h-., 
 required me hitherto in this address to practise I must 
 
 ceived, and! fear, more misrepresented. And yet what 
 sronger evidence could you afford of the puiity^and s u 
 gleness of your lutcuions, than your leaving a diocese a, 
 yet peaceful, where influence and reputation won'hv 
 
 yr ork;T;"''"^''"'f,'"^' """ -»^~3 
 
 you, to take the irrevocahle step that seats vou ains t 
 must ,t be so, in the midst of turmoil, of a dis tracW Z ion 
 
 cmiicli you arc not hailed with the unanimous plaudits 
 
 P riodfhal'wif : •'"""•''" '"' P^""'- 1'he aSii; 
 Eis bil t^ ,f *' rr •-"■"'■"■P'i"" "'■ the heaviest 
 response lity that mortal can assmue, is that chosen tr. 
 
 in the Lord. Re ,s so, my brother, if it he God's wi^l 
 S udy to shew thyself approved unto' If i,n, .nd you need 
 not fear " though the earth he removed vid thn;,"i;«!. 
 mountains be cast into the midst of the .ea ho S he 
 waters thereof rage and swell, and the no ,nta ns tr at 
 ^e tempest ot tiie .same." One that sittcth Z hlghl! 
 
 pea^r"!^"!,' "'"''"^'^'"''■'''' «''''■-'• wliich vou now ap- 
 fvh,^ Wh ,rr^ respects, most bono ,raVe and grati- 
 lymg. What glory surrounds the mei.w.'io ii the m-imi 
 
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 are called. One, also * whose long protracted yeaw 
 whose pure and heavenly character, whose meek and 
 lowly,and beneficent virtues should exite nought but love- 
 one, whose eminent patriarchal services have done so 
 much for the church that he has for more than half a cen- 
 tury cherished ; whose piety is as pure as it is lovely and 
 engagmg; he has not disarmed that rage of faction which 
 has stretched even him on the rack of moral martyrdom 
 What an honour to suffer thus associated; what a priviWp 
 to enjoy his confidence, his affection, and his counsel. 
 In this respect, enviably distinguished will you be, my 
 brother. *^ ' ^ 
 
 And I see hastening to rally around you, in the holy 
 course of your duty, a. body of Clergy, whose talents 
 earning, and primitive piety and zeal, adorn and exalt 
 that church, to whose interests they have been, through 
 so many difficulties and trials, inflexibly devoted, and 
 whose honour and purity they have so nobly defended.— 
 1 see hastening to join their ranks a body of Laity, hi<rh- 
 mmded, talented, pure, intrepid, whose support confers 
 honour, while it pledges, with God's blessing, success : 
 and who, in the hour of their church's need, have devoted 
 to her their talents, their time, their influence, their for- 
 tune ; and, uniting with her clergy, have as yet saved 
 her. .Surrounded by a band, in character, principle, in- 
 trepidity, zeal, not unworthy of the primitive times of 
 martyrs and confessors, go on, my brother, in the noblest 
 ot all causes, God and his church. God will be with you 
 approve, and bless you. ^ 
 
 And yet it would be treachery to that cause, not to look 
 forward to the dangers that threaten it. There may 
 c^me a time, when the prophetic censure will apply to 
 those who cry "peace, peace, when there is no peace.'* 
 
 The venerable Biihop White, of Pennsylvania. Although tha 
 remarks with which the Sermon concludes are more peculiarly of local 
 interest, the Publisher feels that he should be doing an injustice to \h: 
 autliorin omitting them. «» w 
 
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 Therr may comn a time, when non-resistance would be 
 the triumph of error, and the downfall of the chm-ch; and, 
 with it, the best hopes, of pure, sound, ai;d primitive Chris- 
 tianity. There may come a time, when tlie enemy is not 
 only at the gate of the citadel, but has gamed its walls ; 
 and when it will be the sad duty of the watchmen who 
 guard them, to sound the alarm— The cause of the Lord 
 and of his truth, against the mighty— and when all orders 
 of men in our Zion must harness themselves for the bat- 
 tle. Yet the weapons will not be carnal, nor guided bv 
 human passion. God forbid. They will be those of the 
 spiritual powers which he has vested in his church, of the 
 constitution, and of the laws; and they will be exerted in 
 his fear. If these fail, then comes the awful but imperi- 
 ous resolve, to preserve, at all hazards, the precious de- 
 posit of primitive faith, order, and worship, entrusted to 
 our church. Should such a time come — God, in his mer- 
 cy, avert it— in the diocese where I now speak , should 
 it comebeibre that venerable head has descended to the 
 grave, full of honour and affection as it is of years, who 
 ran doubt that it will lift itself in the lustre of meekness 
 but with the commanding aspect of inflexible resolve. And 
 of him whom I shall soon greet as my brother in the epis- 
 copacy, I will predict, that he will not prove himself un- 
 worthy .of so meek, but unappalled a leader. 
 
 The scenes which have been witnessed in this diocese 
 well might we wish that they should forever pass from' 
 memory. But duty to God, to His truth, and to His 
 church, forbid. I would indelibly engrave them, and raise 
 aloft the record, an awful beacon, to mark the region of 
 wild uproar and of storms ; to warn the friends of genuine 
 piety against those who, in her fairest garb, and with her 
 highest professions, employ arts that dishonour her ' ncred 
 name ; to admonish churchmen to the latest geneiwio is 
 to shun those principles and practices which will In. u'a- 
 bly distract, disgrace, degrade their church, and,which 
 would, but that she is foimded on the rock of ages ruin 
 her. ® ' 
 
 Yes,^could I send my voice into every jxirt of our Zion, 
 I would send with it the holy watchword— The Church 
 
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 in her faith, her ministry, her order,her worship, in all her 
 great distinctive principles — Maintain her at all hazards. 
 For amidst the agitations and tumults of error and en- 
 thusiasm, she is ^the asylum of the wise and the ffood ; 
 amidst the conflicts of heresy and schism, she is the safe- 
 j,'uard of the truth as it is in Jesus,of all that He and His 
 apostles ordained to advance the salvat; n of a lost world. 
 Almighty God, give to us all, the wisdom and the grace 
 to do our duty in the trials and exigencies to which Thv 
 church may he called, and thus to approve ourselves to 
 Thee,for the sake of Him who loved thatChurch and gave 
 himself for it, and now lives to intercede for and to bless 
 it, Christ Jesus the Lord, 
 
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 "O God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our outy 
 Bavidkir, the Prince of Peace ; Give us grace seriously 
 to lay to heart the great dangers we nre in by our unhap- 
 py divisions. Take away ail hatred and prejudice, and 
 whatsoever else may hinder us from godly Union and 
 Concord : that, as there is but one Bcdy, and one Spirit, 
 and one Hope of our Calling, one Lonl, one Faith, one 
 Bantism, one God and Father of us all, so we may hence- 
 forth be all of one he^rt, and of owe soul, united in one 
 holy bond of Truth and Peace, of Faith and Charity,and 
 may with one mind and one mouth glorify thee, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 ^Pl.tlS.)